The picture shows a river view of the new biomass terminal at the former Tyne Dock, where wood pellets from Canada are shipped across the Atlantic to be taken by train and burned at the small converted power station at Lynemouth on the Northumberland coast. Until quite recently the power station served to produce electricity for the nearby, now demolished, energy-guzzling Aluminium Smelter.

As a physicist I am puzzled as to whether the return in energy output is more than is used in processing the pellets, fuelling massive ships like this and transporting to the power-station.